George Szirtes
Autore di Reel
Sull'Autore
George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948, and came to England with his family after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. He was educated in England, training as a painter, and has always written in English. In recent years he has worked as a translator of Hungarian literature, producing editions of such mostra altro writers as Ott Orbn, Zsuzsa Rakovszky and gnes Nemes Nagy, and novelists such as Sndor Mrai and Lszl Krasznahorkai. His other Bloodaxe titles include Reel, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, New Collected Poems; The Burning of the Books and other poems; Bad Machine; and Mapping the Delta. His memoir, The Photographer at Sixteen (MacLehose Press, 2019), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography. He lives in Norfolk and is a freelance writer, having retired from teaching at at the University of East Anglia. mostra meno
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Opere di George Szirtes
Leopard V: An Island of Sound: Hungarian Poetry and Fiction Before and Beyond the Iron Curtain (2004) 8 copie
Fortinbras at the Fishhouses: Responsibility, the Iron Curtain and the Sense of History as Knowledge (Newcastle /… (2010) 6 copie
The World Goes On 4 copie
Music & Literature: Issue 2 3 copie
Idyll 1 copia
New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation (Anthologies in Translation) by Istvan Kemeny (2010-03-09) — A cura di — 1 copia
The Iron Clouds 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Adventures of Sindbad (1944) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni; Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 203 copie
Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (2015) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Poetry Introduction 4, with Clothier, Cluysenaar, Alan Hollinghurst, Craig Raine and Szirtes (1978) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1948-05-09
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Hungary (birth)
UK - Luogo di nascita
- Budapest, Hungary
- Luogo di residenza
- London, England, UK
Wymondham, Norfolk, England, UK - Attività lavorative
- poet
translator
university teacher - Relazioni
- Upchurch, Clarissa (wife)
- Organizzazioni
- University of East Anglia
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Ovid Prize (2006)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 37
- Opere correlate
- 24
- Utenti
- 259
- Popolarità
- #88,671
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 39
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 1